Who+Uses+Creative+Commons

Who Uses It?
=​ Renata Avila = Renata Avila, [|Creative Commons Guatemala] Project Lead, spearheaded the launch of [|Creative Commons licenses] in Guatemala to help connect the many cultures and linguistic backgrounds in Guatemala. With her assistance, the Guatemalan Ministry of Education is using cc to provide books and materials with [|cc licenses] accross the educational system, and some of the country's universities have released their online educational resources to the commons. She is also an author for [|Global Voices Online], an exciting example of global cultural exchange that uses Creative Commons licenses.[|Reference]

Richard Bookman
Richard Bookman, [|University of Miami's Miller School of Medicine], cha​mpions the benefits of [|open science] and the sharing made possible by Creative Commons. He is working towards a model of science funding that allows work to be attractive to investors while still being able to share work online, through [|Science Commons]. At this point, Science Commons remains an offshoot project of Creative Commons, uniting scientists searching for a way to create a 'Science 2.0' that links scientists, research and ideas through a commons.[|Reference]

**Jonathan Coulton was still working his day job when he heard about Creative Commons. A year later, because of the exposure he was getting through CC, he was making music full time. His work was being remixed, added to video, combined and used in all sorts of ways he couldn't have imagined of before he started on CC. One of his ideas for how CC could help his music career was a program he started called Thing a Week. He recorded a new song every week and released it with CC licensing. He was getting feedback from his growing audience with the things users had created based on his music: videos, artwork, remixeds, card games, colouring books. He lost track long ago. "To me, it's a deeply satisfying and beautiful vision of what art and culture can be."[|Jonathan Coulton, Creative Commons blog entry] **

 **The Al Jazeera Network** has made a huge commitment to Creative Commons as a way to make their material easily accessible and reusable in areas of the world that have been closed to Al Jazeera content and viewpoints. The network has created a Creative Commons Repository holding images of the Israeli/Palestine conflict that were previously not available through mainstream networks. These videos can be accessed and used by anyone, as long as they give credit to Al Jazeera. This footage can be downloaded, shared, reworked, subtitled and rebroadcast by users and by media outlets around the world. More recently, they started a blog where posts written by prominent journalists from the Al Jazeera Network can be downloaded and used, as long as Al Jazeera is given credit. It's a groundbreaking challenge to the big news networks like AP and Reuters, that previously controlled the images and content that made its way to the Western news feed.